_At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem
like buffalo -- slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer
space.
Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper
The Arms Race and North American Defence
-The Nuclear Arms Race was central to the Cold War.Many feared where the Cold War was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were
-America and Russia built their stockpile of nuclear weapons
-Nuclear arms race with huge nuclear weapons
-Soviet satellite, Sputnik, in 1957 begins the 'Space Race'
-Lead to Intercontinental ballistic missiles and delivery systems from missiles As a result, America built the Defence and Early Warning (DEW) line around the Artic Nuclear parity defers each side from going to war
-USA exploded the H-bomb in 1952. Smaller in size than the Hiroshima atomic bomb but 2500 times more powerful
-Russians put their money into producing more missiles regardless of quality while America built fewer but better quality missiles
-The Russians produced an H-Bomb as well in 1953 and the world became very dangerous
-Mutually Assured Destruction meant that if either side attacked both would lose through complete annihilation i.e There would be no winner
-America and Russia built their stockpile of nuclear weapons
-Nuclear arms race with huge nuclear weapons
-Soviet satellite, Sputnik, in 1957 begins the 'Space Race'
-Lead to Intercontinental ballistic missiles and delivery systems from missiles As a result, America built the Defence and Early Warning (DEW) line around the Artic Nuclear parity defers each side from going to war
-USA exploded the H-bomb in 1952. Smaller in size than the Hiroshima atomic bomb but 2500 times more powerful
-Russians put their money into producing more missiles regardless of quality while America built fewer but better quality missiles
-The Russians produced an H-Bomb as well in 1953 and the world became very dangerous
-Mutually Assured Destruction meant that if either side attacked both would lose through complete annihilation i.e There would be no winner
North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD)
-Established on May 12, 1958 as an effect of the Cold War
-A joint command between the governments of Canada and the US
-Canada took part in the air defence as an attack would most likely come over Canada
-The Distant Early Warning (DEW), Pinetree and Mid Canada line were a series of radar stations to detect on attack
-Became obsolete when the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, a missile with a range greater than 5500 km, were created which could reach their target in 30 minutes
-Canada then joined NORAD with missile silos designed to shoot down incoming missiles
-A joint command between the governments of Canada and the US
-Canada took part in the air defence as an attack would most likely come over Canada
-The Distant Early Warning (DEW), Pinetree and Mid Canada line were a series of radar stations to detect on attack
-Became obsolete when the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, a missile with a range greater than 5500 km, were created which could reach their target in 30 minutes
-Canada then joined NORAD with missile silos designed to shoot down incoming missiles
Summary
The Nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.